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Last edited by xenopeek on Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:10 am, edited 8 times in total.
Reason:Updated resource for LM11

It works fine for me. But unless you have posted this several times in different messages I think you are not the only one who has commented with having problems opening the file. I've noticed a few comments about it.

i was wondering if someone could help me, i have a dell d600 laptop and would like to load linux mint i played with mint in a vm but would like to go the full way now...my only concern is drives for my dell d600 ????

I have attempted to view the Users Guide from the Wiki introduction section and in each instance am informed that the link has been not found .

The howto link whilst working seems to be devoted to installing which is not quite what I am looking for. Is it possible to either have the links reinstated or have a full pdf of the guide made available for download.

I do not want to pester the life out of the forum asking questions that I am sure will be contained in the guide. I like very much what I see and if I can resolve my booting problems anticipate that I will adopt Elyssa as my main OS.

I boot from CD using f12 and i get into the installer easy enough. I get past the screen that says Linux Mint boot in 10 seconds. After that some words fly across the screen and it says ready. So it starts installing (or I assumed). After that i just get a black screen, Bad burn? or not enough ram (The laptop only has 256 RAM on it). On my frist attempt I got a circle (I assume is like the hourglass) and then the cursor was in the center of the screen and i couldn't move it. At first I may have thought it froze because my battery was extremely low on the laptop. So I restarted and tried again. I got past the first Linux Mint screen but now I didn't get a mouse its now just a black screen.

Can anyone assist me? Sorry if I am not using correct terminology, kinda a newb

I suspect your problem is related to not having enough ram to install. I would suggest you use Gparted to make a swap partition of about 512 MB and reboot before you try to install. This should help greatly if that is your only problem.

Fred

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